About Yoichiro YOSHIKAWA

Yoichiro YOSHIKAWA

Hailing from Kagawa Prefecture,
Yoshikawa began Sankai Juku activities while he was still a student at Tsukuba University, College of Natural Science (Faculty of Science). In 1980, he went to Europe with Sankai Juku. He later returned to Japan and became active as a keyboardist for the rock group “Yapoos” between 1985 and 1993. During that time, he released six CDs and many video clips, and held a number of national tours.

Concurrently, he was also active as a solo artist, working on ambient music and TV commercials. He also created considerable broadcasting music for various programs, such as NHK’s “the Miracle Planet” and “News 10,” as well as producing and contributing music to artists like Princess Princess, Agnes Chan and Yuki Saito. After 1982, he worked on music for Sankai Juku with Takashi Kako and YAS-KAZ. The latest series from Sankai Juku is scheduled for world premier in Sept 2012 at Opera National de Lyon.

Jun Togawa & YAPOOS

Sound production for Sankai Juku

Since 1979, Yoichiro Yoshikawa has been involved with sound production for Sankai Juku. Having the Theatre de la Ville in Paris as their home theater, Sankai Juku have given performances in a total of over 700 cities and 41 countries in Europe, the US, Oceania, and Asia since 1982.